I was never any good at Daleks. I had terrible luck when teleporting.
ETA - a few years ago on a road trip we all chose a superpower - mine was the ability to teleport. I spent the rest of the trip jumping around and making the Daleks teleport sound. Only my sister got the allusion.
Anybody ever hear the Car Crash?
…you still don’t quite trust command-X so you always command-C and delete the original after you know the paste worked.
Ha! We use Windows at work and I do the same thing.
Nanosaur!
Let’s see…
•I’ve got a “hockey puck” mouse. Right now, hooked up to this computer. I still have to remove and clean the rubber ball, occasionally.
•I’ve got a Basilisk emulator setup, which I’ve used occasionally, which has copies of software I got at retail. And a freeware flight simulator scenario editor I got off of AOL, which involves programming aircraft behavior with raw, four-character hex codes. (22FF for the win, baby)
•I have a graphics editor which I got, free, on a floppy disc with a Macworld book. Some of the modified “texture” graphics go back to the first Clinton administration.
I never did figure out what ARose was…
Apple Realtime Operating System Environment
Thanks! I remember doing that-now that you reminded me…
thanks for the clarification on the Moose and Airborne.
ARose. I never programmed for it and had completely forgotten about it.
good memories!
do you live in cupertino by any chance? 
No, although I did interview at Apple for the “Scientific and Engineering Evangelist” position back in the Mac II days. My first Mac was a “Fat Mac”, and the only reason I didn’t buy a 128K was I had read all the magazines, and they all said to wait for the inevitable upgrade.
I once read a hilarious article about an Apple guy who went to a classroom of 3rd or 4th graders back in 1987 or thereabouts, to talk about the Mac. The techie boots up a Mac Plus and shows them how to draw little fishies in MacPaint and some other things of that ilk before the teacher says “Excuse me… before you go any further I think you should come look at Bobby’s Mac over here”. Little Bobby had used ResEdit to edit all the error messages to say things like “WARNING! You need to change your underpants!” instead of “WARNING! Change All is NOT Undo-able!”, had recorded macros that made a bunch of Empty Folder icons march around the desktop and attack each other, had changed dialog boxes so that previously “modal” error messages could be dragged offscreen and let you keep working, etc.
When the mac was thinking, you’d get a little B&W wristwatch, no multi-colored spinning beach ball, and there was no telling if your mac froze, or if you should give it “just another five minutes” before you had to hard-reboot and lose all your unsaved docs.
Your cursor arrow didn’t have a shadow under it.
You had to assign how much RAM each app used under Get Info.
If I go to a coffee house, I’m the only one using a G4 iBook. Hell, I’m the only one using a Mac laptop without chicklet keys.
Also, I donated my color NeXTStation to the local computer museum last week. THAT is old-school Mac, in the context f OS X.
I had a Mac512K and remember everything in this thread. Damn, getting old sucks.
Yes they conflicted. (How many times did you have to rename them to make them load in a different order?) Yes some of them created system instability (and you had to figure out which ones were causing the crashes and dump them). But you loved them. You know you did.
Flash-It <—— for snagging screen shots
Super Clock <—— before Apple made menu bar clock option as part of the OS.
Escapade <—— enabled the Esc key and ⌘-anyletter to auto-click nondefault buttons
SFVol <—— to create a New Folder within a Save dialog, before Apple added THAT
DOS Mounter <—— to read MS-DOS disks without that horrid Apple File Exchange thingie
Møire <—— screen saver
Apollo <—— launcher. way cool, you could swap directly from App 1 to App 2 without going thru Finder. Still cool even after MultiFinder
Carpetbag <—— cheaper than Suitcase or Juggler
Scroll2 <—— arrows on both ends of your scroll bars
WaitLess <—— bring up just one CDev; hierarchical Control Panels for System 6!
WindowShade <—— the original window minimizer, before Apple added it to the OS
MacPUKE <——sound effect when ejecting removable media.
Remember? <—— scheduler with alert pop-up
“The pirates laugh Har, Har, Har!”